Calls to ban Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party — now the second-largest in the country — are escalating, sparking alarm from legal experts and historians who warn such a move could tear apart the nation’s democratic fabric. Despite receiving over ten million votes and securing official opposition status, the AfD continues to face aggressive attempts by the German left to remove it from public life.
Archaeologists from the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) in western Germany, uncovered a Roman-era mystery at a site in Delbrück, including the remains of a Roman military belt buried in what experts believe may be the grave of a Germanic mercenary.
Germany’s Charité University of Medicine in Berlin has barred an Islamic student group, the Medislam Collective, from holding further events on campus. The decision follows accusations of gender-segregated seating during lectures and sex-specific student activities, which the university says violate its anti-discrimination policies.
The discovery of three unexploded WWII bombs in Cologne, Germany, forced the evacuation of over 20,000 residents on June 4, 2025, marking the city's largest such operation since the end of the war.
Germany’s demographics are shifting at a record pace, as new government data reveals that one in four people in Germany now have an “immigration history.” This figure, published by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), represents 21.2 million residents—an increase of 873,000 people in just one year. Among young adults aged 20-39, the number surges to one in three.
The United Kingdom and Germany announced that they will develop a "deep precision strike" weapon with a range of more than 2,000 km, or more than 1,200 miles.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) called on Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to stop intelligence cooperation with Germany following the country’s crackdown on the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Germany’s domestic intelligence service recently labeled the AfD a “right-wing extremist” group, triggering political and legal actions against its members, including civil servants and police officers.
Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance, failed to secure the chancellorship in the first round of parliamentary voting on Tuesday.
